When Lying is Acceptable
This is the kind of stuff that just really gets me angry and wound up. The linked ad is blatantly false, but designed to evoke fear. The Massachusetts does nothing like this ad suggests. When the ends justify the means, and people resort to lies and misinformation as the only way to make their case, there is a real problem.
This is the most extreme example of it that I have seen, but others most more subtle have been out there all along. A friend described it to me as desperation, and it may well be, but that doesn’t alter the fact that it takes time, energy and effort to continue to combat it. There will always be some people, who no matter what you say,or how many facts you show them, they will want to discriminate and demonize some parts of the GLBTQ community. If these ads targeted only those folks, it wouldn’t be so bad. But the lies are broad and dangerous because many others, who when faced with facts often would side with equality. But when you color the issue with fear, and especially fear involving the safety of kids, sometimes the facts never make it through the fear response.
These are the folks who are destroying our country by turning lies into weapons and refusing to enter into reasonable rational dialogue. This isn’t about developing a majority view, it is about bullying through brute force.
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